November 1, 2011

Felt Mushroom tutorial

A while ago I showed these mushrooms with a promise to explain how I made them. So even though it's been a while (two years!) here is the tutorial :)
Note: these aro not toys. I let my boys play with them gently, and the mushrooms are ok with that, but they don't respond well to being tossed around or getting wet or dirty.

Cut the fabric into a circle, and the felt into a slightly smaller circle. Use cups, bowls, plates, cans etc. to draw around. I used a CD-rom for the fabric and a big roll of tape for the felt. Cut from the other colour of felt (for the stem) shapes similar to these:

Now fill the cap with spelt. I had it laying around and I like the texture and the sound of it, and also that it is very lightweight and doesn't maken you mushroom fall over (but you could use something else if you prefer):

These are so cute! Thank you for sharing. Visiting from Bacon Time. Would love it if you would share this at my Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House. http://thededicatedhouse.blogspot.com/2012/09/make-it-pretty-monday-week-14.html Hope to see you at the bash! Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse

Thanks for linking up to my party! I wanted to let you know I picked your link to feature this week! See my post and grab my feature button here http://toastiestudio.blogspot.nl/2012/10/made-monday-41-picks.html